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West Virginia down to two friends.

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Posted by Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett on June 28, 2010 at 4:54 AM

From the Los Angles Times obituary of Senator Robert C. Byrd by Johanna Neuman:

“On election night 2000, when Byrd, then 83, was reelected with his largest margin ever — a 78% majority, carrying all 55 counties and all but seven of the state’s 1,970 precincts — he remarked: ‘West Virginia has always had four friends: God Almighty, Sears Roebuck, Carter’s Little Liver Pills, and Robert C. Byrd.’ (He later dropped Sears from the list, complaining about inadequate service on a heater.)”

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